Free-flowing intuition: The wisdom of dreams

January 16, 2010|Dr. Teri Daunter Saturday Columnist

Dreams are a portal to another reality, a dimension of unlimited possibilities through which visions and intuitions communicate with us. They are powerful agents for change and tell us that we are so much more than what we think we are. The unlimited and collective wisdom and visions which come from dreams are within the reach of everyone. Dreams are a timeless source of guidance, wisdom and learning when you use them properly.

Transitional states between sleeping and waking are extraordinarily fruitful times for dreams. I recall one morning, as I was in the hypnagogic state (a state of intermediate consciousness, a state of half-asleep and half-awake which we often experience before fully waking in the morning) I heard a knock on our front door.

I opened the door and a uniformed trooper informed me that my husband was riding in a pickup truck coming from Ellsworth, a nearby town, and the driver had been drinking, hit a semi-truck and the driver was killed. My husband, the passenger, was in intensive care and in critical condition at the hospital. I sobbed so profusely that I awakened myself from the dream.

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I could not stop weeping as I showered and dressed to go to my office that morning. Before I left, however, I noticed a note from my husband requesting that I drop off a document to him on my way to work.

As I met him I was still weeping; puzzled, he asked, “What is the matter? I have never seen you this way.” I related to him the dream, and as I mentioned the town of Ellsworth, a town which we rarely have reason to visit, his face turned white. Noting the sudden change, I asked, “What is the matter with you? You have turned pale.” He took a deep breath and informed me, “I have a meeting in Ellsworth this evening and I am being picked up in a pickup truck by Ben.”

My husband changed his plans.

It is important to stay focused on the mystery of dreams. This precognitive dream was a vehicle through which my intuition made itself known, and it very well may have saved his life. Precognitive dreams are a way that we reach into the vast inner space of our eternal non-local mind, as Larry Dossey, author of "Recovering The Soul," instructs.

The wisdom and power of the dream experience can transform your life. Intuition flows freely during dreamtime, because dreams are uncensored. Intuition does not always supply the right answers, but it always supplies the right questions which will guide you to the right answer. Intuition is the thought which comes to a person instantly in any situation before a person has time to think and reason. Trusting and living through your intuition, your sixth sense, will move you to become a person who wants to develop the larger self. The goal, although important, is not as important as the journey.

When you begin to believe that the crises life generates are opportunities for spiritual emergence, and not necessarily an emergency, and you begin to depend on direction from your sixth sense, your intuition and your dreams, you will ask different questions and accept different answers than you would ordinarily. In making this integral shift in perception, from being acted upon by life to becoming actively involved in the process of living, you will develop a consciousness of choice which will enhance your life on every level.

It's the stuff of dreams, indeed.

Dr. M. Teri Daunter, Ph.D., is a psychologist with Family Psychological Services in Petoskey; 347-7665.